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Powerhouse dreams to be a place where people can find love, encouragement and meaning for their lives. Powerhouse is a place where people matter, come as you are and be yourself!

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Our Vision

In a world where the media tells people they’re not good, beautiful, or successful enough, we at Powerhouse aim to let people know they matter. We strive to create a space for people to come as they are and find love, encouragement and meaning in life. Believing that we as followers of Jesus ought to move outwards – into the world – we observe and respond to what’s happening around us. Our community also longs to show people that God has a plan and purpose for their lives.

Our Values

Religion is often linked to pretentiousness. But being non-religious, we aim to let people feel accepted without forcing them to first wear an ‘acceptable’ mask. There’s no pressure to perform, so feel free to join as we explore Christ’s teachings in a non-threatening, grace-filled atmosphere.

Relational

With our tag line being ‘Where people matter’, we seek to create strong, impactful relationships where people know they are loved and needed. We’re more of a family than a pious congregation – we live life together, help each other, and ensure we have loads of fun!

Relevant

We believe not just in keeping up with changes, but pioneering them. Using the arts, technology and innovative ideas, we constantly find new ways to infuse the unchanging Word of God into our ever-changing lives.

Radical

Life isn’t meant to be compartmentalised into the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’. Believing that all we think, say and do ought to reflect Christ himself, we’re willing to stand for what’s true and what liberates, even if it’s not what’s popular. Our faith shapes the way we live, work and play.

Reaching out

The church isn’t a building, but a group of people instructed to spread the Good News. Sometimes through words, sometimes through actions and sometimes through silence, we help bring healing into a world desperately trying to numb the pain.

In practice, this looks like campaigning against injustice, empowering the needy, or just lending a listening ear.

Responsible

At Powerhouse, there’s no barrier between the clergy and laity. Everyone has a part to play as we discover our God-given talents as individuals and as a community. We encourage and equip each other to serve better, to pass on what we learn, and to be a part of God’s big plan.

Releasing

Our Statement of Faith

THE GODHEAD We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons-the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit-and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience.

THE AUTHORITY AND POWER OF THE BIBLE We affirm the divine inspiration, truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety as the only written word of God, without error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.

We also affirm the power of God’s word to accomplish his purpose of salvation. The message of the Bible is addressed to all men and women. For God’s revelation in Christ and in Scripture is unchangeable. Through it the Holy Spirit still speaks today. He illumines the minds of God’s people in every culture to perceive its truth freshly through their own eyes and thus discloses to the whole Church ever more of the many-colored wisdom of God.

SALVATION & THE UNIQUENESS OF CHRISTWe believe that Salvation is a gift from God to man. Man can never make up for his sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting in Jesus Christ as God´s offer of forgiveness can man be saved from sin´s penalty. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ into his life by faith.
We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
We affirm that there is only one Saviour. There is no other name by which we must be saved, except the name of Jesus. All men and women are perishing because of sin, but God loves everyone, not wishing that any should perish but that all should repent. Yet those who reject Christ repudiate the joy of salvation and condemn themselves to eternal separation from God.

THE HOLY SPIRITThe Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son as God. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith.(2 Cor. 3:17; John 16:7-13, 14:16,17; Acts 1:8; 1 Cor. 2:12, 3:16; Eph. 1:13; Gal. 5:25; Eph. 5:1)

THE GREAT COMMISSION
We believe that it is the explicit message of our Lord Jesus Christ to those whom He has saved that they are sent forth by Him into the world even as He was sent forth of His Father into the world. We believe that, after they are saved, they are divinely reckoned to be related to this world as strangers and pilgrims, ambassadors and witnesses, and that their primary purpose in life should be to make Christ known to the whole world.

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYWe affirm that God is both the Creator and the Judge of all men. We therefore should share his concern for justice and reconciliation throughout human society and for the liberation of men and women from every kind of oppression. Because men and women are made in the image of God, every person, regardless of race, religion, colour, culture, class, sex or age, has an intrinsic dignity because of which he or she should be respected and served, not exploited. We affirm that evangelism and socio-political involvement are both part of our Christian duty. For both are necessary expressions of our doctrines of God and man, our love for our neighbour and our obedience to Jesus Christ. The message of salvation implies also a message of judgment upon every form of alienation, oppression and discrimination, and we should not be afraid to denounce evil and injustice wherever they exist. When people receive Christ they are born again into his kingdom and must seek not only to exhibit but also to spread its righteousness in the midst of an unrighteous world. The salvation we claim should be transforming us in the totality of our personal and social responsibilities. Faith without works is dead.

THE SACRAMENTS OR ORDINANCESWe believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are the two sacraments and ordinances of the church and that they are a scriptural means of testimony for the church in this age.

(Matt. 28:19; Luke 22:19-20; Acts 10:47-48; 16:32-33; 18:7-8; 1 Cor. 11:26).
THE RETURN OF CHRISTWe believe that Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly, in power and glory, to consummate his salvation and his judgment. This promise of his coming is a further spur to our evangelism, for we remember his words that the gospel must first be preached to all nations. We believe that the interim period between Christ’s ascension and return is to be filled with the mission of the people of God, who have no liberty to stop before the end. We also remember his warning that false Christs and false prophets will arise as precursors of the final Antichrist. We therefore reject as a proud, self-confident dream the notion that people can ever build a utopia on earth. Our Christian confidence is that God will perfect his kingdom, and we look forward with eager anticipation to that day, and to the new heaven and earth in which righteousness will dwell and God will reign forever. Meanwhile, we rededicate ourselves to the service of Christ and of people in joyful submission to his authority over the whole of our lives.